A valiant effort by a California workers’ compensation carrier to make it more difficult for an employee to argue employer fault and settle around a workers’ compensation carrier’s statutory lien and right of reimbursement fell on deaf ears recently, when the California Court of Appeals rejected the notion that the workers’ compensation carrier has adequate standing to challenge . . .

Santa Barbara County Fire officials are continuing to fight the Alisal Fire in Santa Barbara County. The Alisal Fire is now 41% contained, fire officials reported Friday morning.



Officials attribute the jump in containment to cooperative winds and the hard work of fire crews.

Three homes and two outbuildings have been destroyed by the fire. In total, 439 buildings have been threatened by the Alisal Fire.

1,731 personnel continue to fight the fire’s spread.

A significant increase in vehicle theft and vandalism in California has led to a surge in comprehensive auto insurance claims in the state, a new report from Mercury Insurance says.

A fire burning in a mobile home park in the Delta town of Isleton destroyed 30 structures and threatens 20 more but is expected to be contained by Tuesday’s end, according to the River Delta Fire Protection District.

A twin-engine plane that killed at least two people and left a swath of destruction in a San Diego suburb nose-dived into the ground after repeated warnings that it was flying dangerously low, according to a recording.

The Caldor Fire, burning in eastern California and western Nevada, became the second incident to take wildfire behavior in a direction never recorded before 2021: Across the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

A proposed class-action lawsuit has been filed against the companies who run the oil line that dumped hundreds of thousands of crude oil off the coast of California over the weekend.

A federal jury in Los Angeles awarded $6.3 million to actor Shannen Doherty on Monday in a lawsuit alleging that State Farm failed to pay sufficiently for damage to her house in a 2018 California wildfire.

Updated data from the California Workers’ Compensation Institute and the Division of Workers Compensation reports COVID-19 death claims have risen 51% since the last update in February.

CAA has filed a lawsuit against an insurance company in what has become the latest instance of a media and entertainment organization suing an insurer for denying payment on loss claims regarding pandemic shutdowns.

One of the primary insurers of Irving-based Boy Scouts of America announced Tuesday that it has reached a tentative settlement agreement with the organization and with attorneys representing tens of thousands of men who say they were molested decades ago by scoutmasters and others.

A ferocious wildfire swept toward Lake Tahoe on Tuesday just hours after roads were clogged with fleeing cars when the entire California resort city of South Lake Tahoe was ordered to evacuate and communities just across the state line in Nevada were warned to get ready to leave.

Paramount sued its insurer on Monday for refusing to cover the vast majority of its losses due to pandemic-related shutdowns on ‘Mission: Impossible 7.’

On May 26, 2021, the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) became yet another landmark in the U.S. representing violence and despair.

The Caldor Fire raged without containment through rugged forested areas of El Dorado County on Tuesday, destroying an elementary school, a church and numerous other structures and prompting thousands of rural residents to navigate a traffic jam in order to flee.